linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 14/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: inline more exit handlers in vmx.c

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Date:   Mon, 23 Sep 2019 21:00:56 -0400
From:   Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
To:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc:     Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@...hat.com>,
        Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
        Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/17] KVM: monolithic: x86: inline more exit handlers in
 vmx.c

On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 12:19:12PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 20/09/19 23:25, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > They can be called directly more efficiently, so we can as well mark
> > some of them inline in case gcc doesn't decide to inline them.
> 
> What is the output of size(1) before and after?

Before and after this specific commit there is a difference with gcc 8.3.

full patchset applied

 753699   87971    9616  851286   cfd56 build/arch/x86/kvm/kvm-intel.ko

git revert

 753739   87971    9616  851326   cfd7e  build/arch/x86/kvm/kvm-intel.ko

git reset --hard HEAD^

 753699   87971    9616  851286   cfd56  build/arch/x86/kvm/kvm-intel.ko

git revert

 753739   87971    9616  851326   cfd7e  build/arch/x86/kvm/kvm-intel.ko